The purpose of this article is to analyze managerial technologies and their historical relationship with education. To achieve this goal, it identifies training methods and techniques developed in the United States by Charles Allen in 1919, which were intensified on the basis of what became known as Training Within Industry (TWI) in 1940 and which evolved until the 1970s as “Japanese management”, becoming a key element of the “Toyota Production System”(TPS). The ideological character that pervades and is characteristic of managerial technologies has been verified through their relationship with the educational ideals present mainly in there commendations on education made by multilateral agencies in the last three decades. Key words: management technologies, work and education, capital.